Re: Wow! ID mobile on 3 Network

3's super-congested network! I've had no problems as yet, but I only put the iD SIM in my new Microsoft Lumia 640 mobile on Monday, paid £129.95 for the phone SIM Free. Cry your eyes out Apple £600 for an iPhone.

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The UK's pool of mobile network operators seems to be shrinking all the time. With EE rolling together Orange and TMobile in recent years, and Three set to subsume O2 and BT to takeover EE, we'll soon have just three main networks to choose from.
Needless to say, less choice in such situations is generally bad for consumers.
Fighting against this uniformity, there are a number of Mobile Virtual Network Operator offerings, of which Carphone Warehouse's iD is the latest.

Re: Wow! ID mobile on 3 Network

3's super-congested network! I've had no problems as yet, but I only put the iD SIM in my new Microsoft Lumia 640 paid £129.95 SIM Free. Cry your eyes out Apple £600.

Last time i heard any statement like that someone was trying to sell me something, never the less, you may not see any issues right now, but in (my) testing 3 have come out at the bottom alongside O2... Ha! maybe O2 and 3 are destined to be "The Biggest and Slowest"

Will be an interesting time ahead if/when 3 & O2 merge there user base together, there will be so much fighting over bandwidth between 3's AYCE customers and all the various cheap resellers of 3 and specially O2...

Sorry for my negativity, but just calling it the way I see it!

PS. I suppose your £130 windows phone works effortlessly with other Apple Devices, I assume you can send texts and make calls from your windows computer when it is in range of your wireless network (and soon remote too for customers of Wi-Fi calling), I don't think I need to go on but making statement about an entry-level £130 smartphone vs. a premium device is pointless, i ned not go on

Re: Wow! ID mobile on 3 Network

I went from 3 to EE and EE make 3's network look like ADSL compared to Fibre!

No thanks I won't be back.

And those prices won't last for long. even 3 did the same amount of stuff for £6.90 a month on a 30 day contract and that was removed so if they can't make a profit on their own network no way an MVNO would be able to.